Cultosaurus Erectus

Artist: Blue Öyster Cult
Label: Columbia
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5099749342026
ASIN: B00000IBD5

Release Date: 1999-02-05

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10 Best Rock Albums Of All Time
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BOC albums, progressing downward in order of brilliance
Heavy Metal Top 25 from the year 1980
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Tracks:

Black Blade
Monsters
Divine Wind
Deadline
Marshall Plan
Hungry Boys
Fallen Angel
Lips in the Hills
Unknown Tongue

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Fire of Unknown Origin
Mirrors
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Customer Reviews:

Reveal to Me..........2006-03-15

One of the best BOC LPs, produced in glory by one of the masters, Martin Birch. By "best" I mean: dark, heavy, classy & original. The Oyster Boys let loose some pearls like "Lips...", Buck's "Deadline", Joey's sunny-sounding "Fallen Angel" & the eerie "Unknown Tongue." Eric Bloom has never sounded more in command. Check out the other side to this coin=Fire of Unknown Origin. And for those not on board yet go see em live, NOW, on the road forever.

THE MONSTERS ARE BACK!.......2006-03-08

After their commercial success with AGENTS OF FORTUNE, along with their Halloween-compatible conterpart SPECTRES, and their lark-into-the-sunshine MIRRORS, the Blue Oyster Cult comes rip-roaring back with CULTOSAURUS ERECTUS. This album brings them back into very familiar territory, minus the production team of Murray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman, and David Lucas. The sound of the Cult is heavier and is more inclined to go in more exotic trips (listen to MONSTERS). I remember that the president of the B.O.C. fan club stated that CULTOSAURUS ERECTUS was his favorite album by B.O.C. This may not be the absolute best by B.O.C., but one thing is for sure, it certainly is one of the weirdest.

B.O.C. get nervous..........2006-02-26

After the disastrous sales of the pop and disco oriented ' Mirrors ' (and the fans not so good reaction toward that album), B.O.C. decided to get weird and heavier again with 1980's ' Cultosaurus Erectus '. I remember my brothers and I being excited when we first saw the album. We could tell by just looking at the front and back covers that B.O.C. were heading in the right direction again.

The first half of the album made me a happy B.O.C. fan again. The opening cut, ' Black Blade ', was a collaboration between Eric Bloom, his old Lost and Found bandmate John Trivers and sci-fi writer Michael Moorcock, and was based on Moorcock's Elric series. This is a good song (I remember being excited when I heard it on the radio), though I like the live version from E.T.L. even better! 'Monsters' is a solid hard rock song which is once again sung by Bloom (who didn't sing too much on their two previous albums) and has a very weird, almost comedic jazzy break in it. 'Divine Wind' is another hard rocker, with a strong vocal once again from Bloom (although it was written by Roeser) and 'Deadline', also written by Roeser, is a laid back, but melodic number.

Unfortunately, I hate the second half about as much as I like the first half. The album goes straight to the toilet with 'The Marshall Plan ', which covers the same lyrical ground as Foreigner's 'Juke Box Hero ' and Bryan Adam's ' Summer Of '69 '( though not quite as successfully). Unfortunately, the music and the vocals for this song are dreadful. In my opinion, a career low for B.O.C. The album never really recovers after this song, though it does get just a wee bit better. I have had this album for over twenty years and I have never gotten into the last four songs. I have a difficult time remembering how they sound and I even forget the song titles, which is bad for me.

So, the album was a step back in the right direction...the songs are heavier, the lyrical themes a bit more in the tradion of older B.O.C. songs, the guitars are louder, the front and back covers are cool to look at. Maybe they should have released this as an EP....

nothing like it...........2006-01-27

A hugh hit in Europe.....some would say the this album created the NWOBM that hit the American shores a few years later. Every song rocks, and like all BOC albums you play it from start to finish....great music to exercise too.....and party to and to....Lips in the Hills, Monsters, Fallen Angel, Hungrey Boys, and Unknown tounge are tremendous.....I cannot recall ever hearing one song from this album on the radio...shame on American radio..and Columbia Records....for not promoting this masterpiece...BOC will always be misunderstood, but their greatness can never be denied!!!!

An excellent rock cd.......2006-01-16

I have always like this cd. From Monsters to Unknown Tongue this cd rocks you like the start of the 1980's could only do. And the classic Black Blade with the excellent stereo effects.
This is one you should add to your cd collection. But you might want to wait for the remaster that is coming out soon with additional songs and a true to the original release cd inlay card.

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